Water

[scienceteacher]

How do I get DH to stop shaving under running water? He seems to think that it is his God-given right.

Superglue the plug in the sink? Or tell him its money running down the drain if your metered. He wouldnt throw 20 pence pieces down there so why is he doing it that way?

Stand next to him with his wallet taking out money the whole time he is doing it.

...without nagging :)

fiddle with the stop cock stop / starting it and making him get wet as he adjusts the tap and gets soaked as you switch the supply back on

Buy him an electric shaver, say you find beards sexy ?

beards = yuk.

if your dh is like mine, an electric shaver just doesn't cut it.

i like the idea of pulling money out of his wallet whilst he does it.

My dh is the same with brushing his teeth.
2 dds and me switch off the tap but ohh no, not only is the tap on, its on full.
Nagging does not work!

Have you tried to explain why and shown him exactly how much water he wastes?
(Break it down into cans eg 15 Coke cans.I saw this on a notice in a camp in the US I first worked in about 16 years ago and it has stayed with me forever.)

Why does he do it?

I can understand that people do it if they're not used to the idea of water as a resource which has to be used properly, but why, once they've had it explained to them, do people insist on running water away unnecessarily? I'm really puzzled by this. Is he just doing it to wind you up?

can't he just put some water in the sink and then put the plug in? works just the same except you just have to shake the razor in the water rather than holding it under the running tap

Mind you, he'd have to wash the sink properly if he did the dunking method. That's maybe why he does the wasting method - because he wouldn't have to clean the sink properly afterwards?

It makes me so fucking angry.
Where I live,I regularly see children walking miles for water,when they should be at school,having a childhood.

yes it can leave bits but if you swill the water round before you take the plug out and while the water runs out, it will get rid of most of it.

I think a lot of people just think sod it (when it comes to saving water).

Running a tap for a few minutes in this country makes no difference to those children, Moondog. Don't let it anger you.

Well thanks ST,but I had already worked out we weren't all using the same very big pipe.

I feel that applying a little thought and care in isolated instances is catching however.

I don't get it. Why does saving water in the UK affect what happens in places where children have to walk and carry water?

Moral support aside...

Moondog is right to be angry, though not at British water users. The anger should be directed at British people because they support EU trade restrictions that make these countries so poor that they can't feed themselves properly or build decent infrastructure.
Thousands of well fed white British people are quite happy to march through the streets about the "rights" of British farmers to buy new Range ROvers, but coloured people trying to feed their familieis are seen as "unfair competition" and their produce kept out.
This has recently taken an even nastier term where the farming lobby has managed to get dopey green media types to complain about the "wasteful" shipping of food over large distances.
Note we see this a lot. Do we ever see the same rage about growing crops in Britain that are require large inputs of energy ?
No.
Wonder why ?

Well DC,you've taken this into a whole new realm..
I am angered by thoughtless use of a precious resource,irrespective of where and whe.
It's so.......oafish.

misuse I should say...